Paulo Coelho’s best-selling novel The Alchemist is to be brought to the big screen, it has been announced.
Producer Harvey Weinstein confirmed at the Cannes Film Festival that The Matrix star Laurence Fishburne would star in, direct and produce the film.
The Weinstein Company will also co-produce the adaptation.
Coelho’s 1988 novel tells of a Spanish shepherd boy who travels to Africa in search of his dream and meets the alchemist along the way.
The Alchemist is one of my favourite stories. I’m not sure how I feel about a film adaptation but if it gets more people reading the book, then it’s a win.